Grant for funny female filmmakers

£1,000 bursary returns

07/05/2024 … A £1,000 bursary to help an up-and-coming female filmmaker turn a comedy idea into reality has returned for a second year.

Real comedy, real trauma

How Baby Reindeer and Feel Good are forging a new television genre, by Marina Deller and Kate Douglas

07/05/2024 … Comedy is opening up spaces for silences to be broken and trauma stories to be told.

Paul Whitehouse to front a new sketch show series

Just a retrospective, mind...

07/05/2024 … Paul Whitehouse is to host a four-part celebration of the sketch show.

What is the name of the police station in The Thin Blue Line?

Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz

07/05/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.

New tours for Shaparak Khorsandi and Chloe Petts

07/05/2024 … Shaparak Khorsandi and Chloe Petts have announced new tours today.

Adam Flood and Alexandra Haddow to record their specials

Debut taping for both comics

07/05/2024 … Adam Flood and Alexandra Haddow are to record their first stand-up specials this month.

The Change to return

Second series for Bridget Christie comedy

07/05/2024 … Bridget Christie’s comedy The Change is to return for a second series.

Robin Ince bring porn into the pulpit

..at his father's funeral

06/05/2024 … Here Robin Ince recalls the moment he brought a pornographic magazine into a church pulpit in this video… The Penthouse belonged to his father Nigel, and…